About this site

I started this website as a hobby project to learn about front-end development and CSS styling. My experience is mainly in back-end development, so I want improve my front-end development skills.

In my opinion using AI is a bad way to learn new things. When you let AI write code, you don't gain any knowledge from it. Even if you take time to read the code that AI writes, you will learn less from it. I always try to limit my use of AI. It is a smart tool that is great at many things, but can also keep us from learning new things. This is especially the case in development.

This is actually another reason why I made this page: I want to learn more about development while using as little AI as possible. We have been writing code for decades without LLMs, I am sure we will be fine if we don't use it for everything.

A good general rule of thumb when it comes to using AI, is to always try to do it yourself first. Never start by asking AI for an answer. If you get stuck after a while, use the old fashioned way of searching the internet and places like StackOverflow. If you're still stuck after that, consider asking an AI.

Another goal I have for this website is to make it as light as possible, while still having it look nice. There are many websites that are build with heavy frameworks, lots of scripts and of course, ads.

I think many websites don't need to be reactive and for websites like this one, a basic Static Site Generator is more than enough. This website is build with AstroJS, but there are other options like Hugo. JavaScript is definitely not a bad thing, don't get me wrong. But for many websites a few simple scripts and some HTML and CSS is enough.